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Ayman al-Zawahiri
In this message, al-Zawahiri, who was bin Laden’s deputy for a long time, praised the people of Syria who fight against the regime of Bashar al Assad, and called them fighters against the rule of American and Israeli interests.
By this, al-Zawahiri is thought to attempt to place the organization he leads on the side of the people who endure crackdown and death at the governmental hand in Syria.
Using the specific metaphors, the leader of al-Qaeda considers the Syrian people to be “the sons of Levant,” the “front of Jihad and martyrdom.”
It is not the first time the organization is associating itself with the fighters for freedom and a higher life condition in the Arab states. Even the former leader, Osama bin Laden, in a tape released after his death, was teaching protestors in the streets how to fight oppression and to embrace the form of Islam al-Qaeda preaches.
However, the way the people protest in the countries in north Africa and in the Arabic Peninsula shows that al-Qaeda has completely lost its touch with the people of these regions, and that its messages are pure propaganda, since countries like Egypt for instance, where al-Zawahiri comes from, are fighting for a democratic society, for Western values of freedom and transparency, and, what is most important, for a mild version of Islam, that would not bear the mark of the fundamentalism preached by al-Qaeda.
In his speech, the new leader of al-Qaeda tells the people of Syria that president Obama and his United States are not on the side of the Syrian people, and that the American president wants to replace Assad with another puppet-like figure.
He added that the people of Syria fight for liberation from a tyrant’s rule, and for the freedom of the Islamic religion, which is not by any means coerced in this country.
Experts consider that the message has no listeners in Syria because the religious factor played a very small part in the uprising of the people in this country, and because it is rather confusing, since Assad himself accuses the protesters of being the agents of foreign powers, mainly of the Americans and Zionists. Furthermore, as can be seen in the banner bellow, the people in the streets of Syrian cities say: “We want freedom, not terrorism!”
Not Terrorism! We Want Freedom!
The Iranian clerics were trying to pass on the idea that Iran was the one that stirred the movement, in a wish to place themselves as leaders of the Arab Spring.
Their attempt was cut off by protests in their own country, where people went as far as to shout “Death to the Ayatollah!”
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